Here are our trial functional prototypes. We are supposed to comment on each other's PowerPoints right? I think we should just stick with picking a color or at least typing your name after your critique for everyone.
Tressa's Comment: Alli, I like it! The main thing I noticed is that you didn't turn off the transition "on mouse click" so learners can still click anywhere to advance instead of just clicking the arrows.
Alli--We did have similar PowerPoints! I clicked on yours and thought I'd opened mine! I like the green arrows that you used. They are much more subtle than the ones I used (I hated mine). I also really liked your title page; we definitely need to have that in the file.--Whitney
Hey Alli, your presentation looked good. I especially liked the look of the opening slide. We should totally use that as our opening slide. I think it would really help the learner if more interaction was implemented on individual slides though. It seemed like the only interaction was to move from one slide to the next. Also, I wasn't sure how the interaction on slide 4 added to the instruction. Maybe a description with the pictures would help. Or maybe you could add some sort of activity rather than just clicking anywhere to get the pictures. I couldn't get to the previous slides from slide 4 either. -Thad
Thad
I could not get my ppt to work how I wanted it to. But if you view the ppt you will have an idea of what I am trying to do. I spent several hours troubleshooting and researching but I still couldn't get it. Basically I have a picture with action shapes on it to represent different perspectives. When the learner clicks on these shapes, another picture appears with a text description under it. For some reason I can't get my actions to animate two objects (text and Picture) at the same time while hiding the previous ones unless the learner clicks on the same shape again to complete the animation. Anyone have any idea how to do this?
Thad, I really liked the way you had it so you could zoom in on the photo. I am sure if we all played around with PowerPoint more, we could get it to work. I think we should implement it somehow to our final project. It would be awesome to let the students zoom in and out of the photos. Your PowerPoint idea takes our content to a whole new level. Good job! -ALLI
Tressa's Comment: Thad, I played around with the ppt and I can't think of a solution. Is it possible to have two animations for one object? I was thinking you could do an entrance animation and an exit one so that the other photo will show but I don't know how to assign both of them to the photo.
I did add an exit animation "on next mouse click" to my trigger but the problem is you have to click on the same trigger in order for the exit animation to work. If you click on another object before you click on the exit trigger the objects stack because a new animation starts from the trigger on that shape but the first object won't exit until it's trigger (the shape) is clicked again. I wanted to place all the text in the same place but since the text won't disappear, they stack and you can't read it. It's not a big deal if the pictures stack because you can't see through them. Maybe it is possible to add an exit animation trigger to everything but the shape with the entrance trigger. That would be annoying and complicated but it might work. -Thad
Thad--Your animations for perspective were awesome. I think if we couple those with Tressa's, it will be quite fun for the students. I also wonder if for the pre and post test, if we could include something with animation. Does PowerPoint have any functions that can generate a quiz?--Whitney
Tressa, I think your PowerPoint is great! I liked the buttons that were consistent on all of the slides. I think we should implement that into our final project. I also liked your shaking photos! It made it fun and gave the students a great way to see the differences between balance and symmetry. The only thing that I would possibly change is the background from black to white. But that's just a personal thing, having text on a black background for a long time makes my eyes hurt. Your PowerPoint was great! -ALLI
Tressa--I'm glad to see that someone figured out how to do the triggers! I had the most difficult time getting it to work. I love that you had a "Home" button. I think if we linked that to the full TOC, it would be very helpful, and easy for the learners to navigate. I also really liked the shaking photos--that was a clever way to signal the right answer, without adding more text. I do think we need to be careful to not have a slide with so much text on it, because that can be visual off putting. In conclusion, I dub thee the "Trigger" master!--Whitney
Tressa, I really liked your prototype. It was aesthetically and functionally sound. I actually like the black background because compared to white it feels more complete and it really makes the pictures pop out at you. In photography and other media, a black canvas is often used and I like this style. You did a ton of work on this presentation. I was under the impression that we were only supposed to create one functional prototype slide and one placeholder example but you really went the distance. This will help us out in the next couple of weeks because it looks to me like we are supposed to have a complete prototype by March 3rd. What you did here would have taken me several days. I don't know how you did so much in such little time. You must be a ppt wiz. I really liked the graphics and layouts you chose. I like the arrow buttons, the home button, and the interactivity you used especially on the balance/symmetry slide. I guess I would suggest adding more interactivity to some of your slides so that rather than just advancing to the next bit of info, the learner can experiment with the different options to learn about the reasoning behind some of the principles and even be allowed to make a wrong choice. Good job though. I'm totally impressed. -Thad
I tried to play around with the triggers and advance clicking, but I couldn't get them to work how they are supposed to. Hopefully one of you had better luck! I did get the arrows and TOC to have the right links and advancing, however. Whitney, I think that we had similar ideas when it came to designing the PowerPoint prototype. I like the table of contents idea and the buttons. I think we should implement your table of contents into the project. I think we will learn a lot about PowerPoint by the end of the semester! Great job! -ALLI
Tressa's Comment: I also liked your TOC and the description you had at the beginning. Did you do anything with the master slides? I didn't play around too much with those but want to spend more time on it.
Wow it really is crazy how similar yours and Alli's are. How did you guys do that? I think my critique to you would be almost the same as Alli's. Your presentation looked good. I liked the table of contents. I think it would really help the learner if more interaction was implemented on individual slides though. It seemed like the only interaction was to move from one slide to the next. Also, the examples on slide 9 seemed to be left to fend for themselves. There is no distinction between the monotonous photos from the disruption of monotony ones. Maybe a description with the pictures would help. Or maybe you could add some sort of activity rather than just showing the pictures with the description of the rules. Also, I could click anywhere to progress the slides. -Thad
Alli:
Tressa's Comment:
Alli, I like it! The main thing I noticed is that you didn't turn off the transition "on mouse click" so learners can still click anywhere to advance instead of just clicking the arrows.
Alli--We did have similar PowerPoints! I clicked on yours and thought I'd opened mine! I like the green arrows that you used. They are much more subtle than the ones I used (I hated mine). I also really liked your title page; we definitely need to have that in the file.--Whitney
Hey Alli, your presentation looked good. I especially liked the look of the opening slide. We should totally use that as our opening slide. I think it would really help the learner if more interaction was implemented on individual slides though. It seemed like the only interaction was to move from one slide to the next. Also, I wasn't sure how the interaction on slide 4 added to the instruction. Maybe a description with the pictures would help. Or maybe you could add some sort of activity rather than just clicking anywhere to get the pictures. I couldn't get to the previous slides from slide 4 either. -Thad
Thad
I could not get my ppt to work how I wanted it to. But if you view the ppt you will have an idea of what I am trying to do. I spent several hours troubleshooting and researching but I still couldn't get it. Basically I have a picture with action shapes on it to represent different perspectives. When the learner clicks on these shapes, another picture appears with a text description under it. For some reason I can't get my actions to animate two objects (text and Picture) at the same time while hiding the previous ones unless the learner clicks on the same shape again to complete the animation. Anyone have any idea how to do this?
Thad, I really liked the way you had it so you could zoom in on the photo. I am sure if we all played around with PowerPoint more, we could get it to work. I think we should implement it somehow to our final project. It would be awesome to let the students zoom in and out of the photos. Your PowerPoint idea takes our content to a whole new level. Good job! -ALLI
Tressa's Comment:
Thad, I played around with the ppt and I can't think of a solution. Is it possible to have two animations for one object? I was thinking you could do an entrance animation and an exit one so that the other photo will show but I don't know how to assign both of them to the photo.
I did add an exit animation "on next mouse click" to my trigger but the problem is you have to click on the same trigger in order for the exit animation to work. If you click on another object before you click on the exit trigger the objects stack because a new animation starts from the trigger on that shape but the first object won't exit until it's trigger (the shape) is clicked again. I wanted to place all the text in the same place but since the text won't disappear, they stack and you can't read it. It's not a big deal if the pictures stack because you can't see through them. Maybe it is possible to add an exit animation trigger to everything but the shape with the entrance trigger. That would be annoying and complicated but it might work. -Thad
Thad--Your animations for perspective were awesome. I think if we couple those with Tressa's, it will be quite fun for the students. I also wonder if for the pre and post test, if we could include something with animation. Does PowerPoint have any functions that can generate a quiz?--Whitney
Tressa:
This was pretty fun!
Tressa, I think your PowerPoint is great! I liked the buttons that were consistent on all of the slides. I think we should implement that into our final project. I also liked your shaking photos! It made it fun and gave the students a great way to see the differences between balance and symmetry. The only thing that I would possibly change is the background from black to white. But that's just a personal thing, having text on a black background for a long time makes my eyes hurt. Your PowerPoint was great! -ALLI
Tressa--I'm glad to see that someone figured out how to do the triggers! I had the most difficult time getting it to work. I love that you had a "Home" button. I think if we linked that to the full TOC, it would be very helpful, and easy for the learners to navigate. I also really liked the shaking photos--that was a clever way to signal the right answer, without adding more text. I do think we need to be careful to not have a slide with so much text on it, because that can be visual off putting. In conclusion, I dub thee the "Trigger" master!--Whitney
Tressa, I really liked your prototype. It was aesthetically and functionally sound. I actually like the black background because compared to white it feels more complete and it really makes the pictures pop out at you. In photography and other media, a black canvas is often used and I like this style. You did a ton of work on this presentation. I was under the impression that we were only supposed to create one functional prototype slide and one placeholder example but you really went the distance. This will help us out in the next couple of weeks because it looks to me like we are supposed to have a complete prototype by March 3rd. What you did here would have taken me several days. I don't know how you did so much in such little time. You must be a ppt wiz. I really liked the graphics and layouts you chose. I like the arrow buttons, the home button, and the interactivity you used especially on the balance/symmetry slide. I guess I would suggest adding more interactivity to some of your slides so that rather than just advancing to the next bit of info, the learner can experiment with the different options to learn about the reasoning behind some of the principles and even be allowed to make a wrong choice. Good job though. I'm totally impressed. -Thad
Whitney:
I tried to play around with the triggers and advance clicking, but I couldn't get them to work how they are supposed to. Hopefully one of you had better luck! I did get the arrows and TOC to have the right links and advancing, however.
Whitney, I think that we had similar ideas when it came to designing the PowerPoint prototype. I like the table of contents idea and the buttons. I think we should implement your table of contents into the project. I think we will learn a lot about PowerPoint by the end of the semester! Great job! -ALLI
Tressa's Comment:
I also liked your TOC and the description you had at the beginning. Did you do anything with the master slides? I didn't play around too much with those but want to spend more time on it.
Wow it really is crazy how similar yours and Alli's are. How did you guys do that? I think my critique to you would be almost the same as Alli's. Your presentation looked good. I liked the table of contents. I think it would really help the learner if more interaction was implemented on individual slides though. It seemed like the only interaction was to move from one slide to the next. Also, the examples on slide 9 seemed to be left to fend for themselves. There is no distinction between the monotonous photos from the disruption of monotony ones. Maybe a description with the pictures would help. Or maybe you could add some sort of activity rather than just showing the pictures with the description of the rules. Also, I could click anywhere to progress the slides. -Thad